Secondly, "he was wearing pants, so there was nothing to wash off. It wasn't a naked show."

And then the drawn-out defense: "I wasn't surprised (by the performance) at all. Honestly, they rehearsed for three days before, and I don't know how not to dance with someone having their booty in your (scrunches face up) - all my friends do it like that. And I don't really know what the big deal is. I don't know if they thought Miley was going to sit down and play piano? Like Alicia Keys?"

"The song is about taking Molly! I don't understand. I didn't get the big deal." Patton got even her seemingly skeptical seatmate NeNe Leakes to crack a smile at this point.

Cohen's conclusion: "I am officially in love with Paula Patton."

Back in July, Thicke told USA TODAY that his wife thought that other controversial clip of his, the topless version of the Blurred Lines video, was "way too cool, way too sexy."